Painting apparatus.



No. 798,888. PATENTED SEPT. 5, 1905. H. DU BRAU.

PAINTING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED D2019, 1004 H ERMAN l)U BRAU, OF BALTIMORE, MARYIAND.

PAINTING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 5, 1905.

Application filerl December 19, 1904. Serial No. 237,458.

To (til 10/1/0111, 2 15 may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERMAN DU BRAU, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented new an d useful Improvements in Painting A pparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to painting apparatus; and it has for its object to provide a simple and inexpensive device through the medium of which stenciling or other painting or printing may be expeditiously effected on walls, cloths, and other surfaces with but a minimum amount of effort on the part of the operator.

\Vith the foregoing in mind the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device constituting one embodiment of my invention as the same appears when in use. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal central .section of the same. Fig. 3 is a diametrical section of the paintcarrying roller removed. Fig. 4: is an enlarged detail view of a part of the frame of the device, and Fig. 5 is a view of a modified construction hereinafter referred to.

Referring by letter to said drawings, and more particularly to Figs. 1 to 4 thereof, A is the frame of my novel device. The said frame is preferably made up of a handle a, formed by bending a strip of sheet metal upon itself, and arms reaching laterally from the forward end of the handle and then forwardly and having slots 0 in their forwardly-extcnding portions, which slots terminate at their rear ends in upwardly-disposed openings (I, for a purpose presently set forth.

B is a roller interposed between the arms Z of the frame and having for its purpose to stencil or otherwise paint or print the surface to be decorated. The said roller B comprises, by preference, a cylindrical body a, of wood, metallic trunnionsf, extending from the ends of the body and journaled in the forward portions of the frame-arms 7/, and a covering 5 of soft and elastic rubber, secured on the perimeter of the cylindrical body 0 and having a pattern in relief. as illustrated. 4

U is the paint-carrying roller, which is also interposed between the frame-arms 7) and is arranged with its perimeter in contact with that of the roller B, Figs. 1 and 2. Said roller in the present and preferred embodiment of my invention comprises a hollow open-work body 7/, preferably of reticulated material, a covering 5, of felt or other suitable cloth, arranged on the perimeter of the body 71, a heady, permanently secured in one end of the body 1t and having a trunnion Z, and a head I, screwed or otherwise rcmovably secured in the other end of the body and also having a trunnion K. The trunnions Z of the roller C are designed to rest and turn in the slots 0 of the frame-arms 7, and the head I of said roller is made removable in order that when removed from the frame the roller may be readily filled with the paint or other substance to be applied to a surface to be decorated.

l) .D are coiled springs disposed alongside the f0rwardly-dirccted portions of the framearms 6 and suitably mounted at one end on the trunnions of the roller B and removably mounted at their opposite ends on the trunnions of the roller (l, this latter to permit of the ready removal of the said roller C for the purpose before stated. The said springs have for their function to hold the perimeter of the roller C under yielding pressure against the perimeter of the roller B throughout the length of said rollers, so asto assure the supply of a uniform quantity of paint or other substance to be applied to all parts of the pattern on the roller B.

It will be observed that in the practical use of my novel device the paint or other substance to be applied to a surface will saturate the cloth covering of the paint-carrying roller U and will be supplied by said covering to the pattern on the roller B, and hence when the latter roller is moved over a surface the pattern will be produced on the surface. It will also be observed that the painting of the pattern on the surface may be quickly effected and is attended by but a minimum amount of effort on the part of the operator.

The modilied device shown in Fig. 5 is similar in construction to the device illustrated in Figs. 1 to 4: with the exception that the roller (1 is in three separated sections m, n, and 7), each of which has an end filling-aperture 11. Three roller-sections are provided, as stated, in order that either two or three colors may be applied to the roller B at one and the same time and transferred by said roller B to the surface to be decorated.

It will be appreciated from the foregoing that my novel device may be handled with facility on a curved line or an irregular line, as well as on a straight line, and may be used to advantage for decorating walls, ceilings,

and other surfaces and also for stamping embroidery-designs on cloth.

I have entered into a detailed description of the construction and relative arrangement of the parts embraced in the present and preferred embodiment of my invention in order to impart a full, clear, and exact understanding of the same. I do not desire, however, to be understood as confining myself to such specific construction and relative arrangement of parts, as such changes or modifications may be made in practice as fairly fall within the scope of my invention as claimed.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by'Letters Patent,

1. A device for the purpose described, comprising a frame having a handle and arms reaching laterally from the forward end of the handle, and thence forwardly, and also having slots in the forwardly-extending portions of the arms, which slots terminate at their rear ends in upwardly'disposed openings, a roller mounted between the forward lyextending portions of the frame-arms and adapted to apply paint to a surface to be decorated, a roller having an open-work body and a cloth covering and adapted to receive paint; the latter roller having portions arranged and movable in the slots of the frame-arms, and coiled springs for yieldingly pressing the paint-carrying roller against the paint-applyhandle formed by bending a strip of sheet metal upon itself, and arms extending laterally from the forward end of the handle and then forwardly, and having slots in the forwardly-directed portions of the arms, and upwardly-disposed openings at the rear ends of the slots, a roller mounted between the forwardly-extending portions of the frame-arms and adapted to apply paint to a surface to be decorated, a paint-carrying roller interposed between the forwardly-extending portions of the frame-arms, and having an open-work body, a cloth covering on the same, a fillingaperture, and trunnions disposed in the slots of the frame-arms, and springs connected to the trunnions of said paint-carrying roller and arranged to hold the perimeter of said roller under yielding pressure against the perimeter of the paint-carrying roller.

3. In a device for the purpose described, the combination of a frame, a paint-applying roller mounted in the frame, a paint-carrying roller also mounted in the frame and comprising a plurality of sections each of which has an open-work body and an absorbent covering on the same, and means for holding the paint-carrying roller under yielding pressure against the paint-applying roller.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witmesses.

HERMAN DU BRAU. Witnesses:

RICHARD GWINN, ALBERT T. LEMK HL. 

